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OER Africa

This overview discusses the role and significance of implementing an institutional OER policy, highlighting the benefits of having a policy framework and identifying key stakeholders. It also considers the potential pros and cons of such a policy and evaluates its effectiveness in addressing the outlined objectives.

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OER Africa

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  1. OER Africa The Role and Importance of an institutional OER policy

  2. OER Africa PAR Grant OUT Policy Workshop January 2016

  3. Overview

  4. Why policy? • Make decisions more efficiently • Make decisions more fairly – less bias/ad hoc • Protecting staff and institution • Provide instructions / legacy guidelines without constant reference to management • Increased transparency and accountability

  5. Key policy stakeholders • Students • Staff • Management • Accreditation agencies • Government • What are the likely pros and cons? • How well does policy address these?

  6. Policy framework

  7. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)Nobel Laureate, 1993 Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  8. This work is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License Thank you Tony Mays tonym@saide.org.za

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